Shorter Oxford English Dictionary

Stargzer

Posted: 25 September 2002 09:50 AM

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This story on Excite.com from Reuters describes the new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. "Muggle" is in their, but not in J. K. Rowling’s sense of the word.

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Linnet

Posted: 25 September 2002 09:59 AM

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This story on Excite.com from Reuters describes the new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. "Muggle" is in their, but not in J. K. Rowling’s sense of the word.

I read in the newspaper last week that Joanne Rowling was successfully defended in a lawsuit another author had filed against her claiming plagiarism for Rowling’s use of the word muggle.

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‘...and that is good English’ (Henry V, V.ii.280)

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‹‹ am I making this up? Have you seen this word lately? ››